Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. — Augustine Birrell
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. — George MacDonald
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish… — Leo Tolstoy
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… — Cormac McCarthy
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes… — Ray Bradbury
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. — John F. Kennedy
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.… — John Steinbeck
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed… — P.G. Wodehouse
Libraries are our friends. — Neil Gaiman
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain… — Graham Greene
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein
Dear me, how I love a library. — Elizabeth Gilbert
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for… — John F. Kennedy
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy… — John Waters
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word… — Henry James
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
A library is infinity under a roof. — Gail Carson Levine
The public library is the most dangerous place in town — John Ciardi
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I… — Alberto Manguel
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. — Alberto Manguel

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